James Carlson wrote: > Glynn Foster writes: >> ACTION: Jim to talk to Dennis about PowerPC growing into a community. > > I had a productive chat with Dennis about the PPC community and > project, and I have what might be a good direction forward. > > Among the things that the PPC project is dealing with, there are a lot > of bits -- VM subsystem, booting sequence, system start-up -- that are > all fairly generic to the process of porting Solaris to a new > architecture. > > As an alternative to simply removing the PPC community, Dennis and I > both suggest renaming it in the hope of providing broader direction > for potential projects aimed at other sorts of ports (including, > likely, ARM), and serving as a repository of information about these > sorts of projects. > > A potential pitfall of picking such a new name is that others will > likely confuse it with the problem of porting software _onto_ Solaris > (a la /usr/ports on BSD) instead of the problem of porting Solaris > itself. So, the name needs to be clear. Some possible ideas: > > Architecture Porting > Architecture Bring-up > Porting OpenSolaris > > In addition to this, I suggested (and Dennis agreed) that the PPC > project should solicit more sponsors, such as Appliances, so that the > necessary communication occurs. > > Assuming we can rally the rest of the community around the idea -- I > haven't talked with them yet; only Dennis -- can we potentially get > consensus among the OGB members around renaming (and rechartering) the > existing community? >
What about "Platform Porting"? either that, or Architecture Bring-up/Porting sound fine to me. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
